Re: [syndication] Re: My take on shared feed lists

[Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@zawodny.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:51:26AM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> >
> >Is there any consensus among aggregators on how to handle this?  Do
> >some use only the first (or last) one?  Which ones actually provide a
> >list?  I ask because I've never seen one present a list, so I really
> >don't know.
> >  
> >
> Here's what we do. Users can subscribe by submitting an RSS url or a 
> 'normal' URL. If it's a specific RSS file, we're done.
> 
> If it's a normal URL, we first check to see if any feeds already in the 
> database reference that URL. If so, if there's only one, we subscribe 
> the user to that feed. If it's more than one, we present a list and have 
> them choose.
> 
> If the URL isn't in the database, we go through the auto-discovery 
> process. If that results in multiple feeds, we again present a choice to 
> the user.

Right.  I'm just wondering how common that is among the popular
aggregators.

Jeremy
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